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Fluctuations with wavelengths larger than the volume of a galaxy survey affect the measurement of the galaxy power spectrum within the survey itself. In the presence of local Primordial Non- Gaussianities (PNG), in addition to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Emanuele Castorina , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah

Next-generation galaxy surveys will increasingly rely on the galaxy bispectrum to improve cosmological constraints, especially on primordial non-Gaussianity. A key theoretical requirement that remains to be developed is the analysis of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Obinna Umeh , Sheean Jolicoeur , Roy Maartens , Chris Clarkson

We present the strongest robust constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) from currently available galaxy surveys, combining large-scale clustering measurements and their cross-correlations with the cosmic microwave background. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-22 Tommaso Giannantonio , Ashley J. Ross , Will J. Percival , Robert Crittenden , David Bacher , Martin Kilbinger , Robert Nichol , Jochen Weller

Upcoming large-scale structure surveys will be able to measure new features in the galaxy two point correlation function. Relativistic effects appear on large scales as subtle corrections to redshift-space distortions, showing up as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Daniel Sobral-Blanco , Camille Bonvin , Chris Clarkson , Roy Maartens

The magnification effects of clustered matter produce variations in the image sizes and number density of galaxies across the sky. This paper advocates the use of these effects in wide field surveys to map large-scale structure and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bhuvnesh Jain

We study the information content of the angle-averaged (monopole) redshift space galaxy bispectrum. The main novelty of our approach is the use of a systematic tree-level perturbation theory model that includes galaxy bias, IR resummation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-23 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox , Takahiro Nishimichi , Marko Simonović , Masahiro Takada , Matias Zaldarriaga

(Abridged Abstract) We calculate the expected amplitude of the dipole and higher spherical harmonics in the angular distribution of radio galaxies. The median redshift of radio sources in existing catalogues is z=1, which allows us to study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-16 Audra Baleisis , Ofer Lahav , Andrew J. Loan , Jasper V. Wall

Current and future galaxy surveys cover a large fraction of the entire sky with a significant redshift range, and the recent theoretical development shows that general relativistic effects are present in galaxy clustering on very large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jaiyul Yoo , Uros Seljak

We show an efficient way to compute wide-angle or all-sky statistics of galaxy intrinsic alignment in three-dimensional configuration space. For this purpose, we expand the two-point correlation function using a newly introduced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-05 Maresuke Shiraishi , Atsushi Taruya , Teppei Okumura , Kazuyuki Akitsu

Next-generation cosmological surveys will probe ever larger volumes of the Universe, including the largest scales, near and beyond the horizon. On these scales, the galaxy power spectrum carries signatures of local primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-16 José Fonseca , Stefano Camera , Mário G. Santos , Roy Maartens

We extend previous analyses of wide-angle correlations in the galaxy power spectrum in redshift space to include all general relativistic effects. These general relativistic corrections to the standard approach become important on large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-17 Daniele Bertacca , Roy Maartens , Alvise Raccanelli , Chris Clarkson

Massive neutrinos imprint distinctive signatures on the evolution of cosmic structures, notably suppressing small-scale clustering. We investigate the impact of massive neutrinos on the galaxy bispectrum in redshift-space, adopting a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Sourav Pal , Debanjan Sarkar , Rickmoy Samanta , Supratik Pal

Next-generation galaxy and 21cm intensity mapping surveys will rely on a combination of the power spectrum and bispectrum for high-precision measurements of primordial non-Gaussianity. In turn, these measurements will allow us to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-08 Roy Maartens , Sheean Jolicoeur , Obinna Umeh , Eline M. De Weerd , Chris Clarkson

Measurements of the non-Gaussianity of the primordial density field have the power to considerably improve our understanding of the physics of inflation. Indeed, if we can increase the precision of current measurements by an order of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Matteo Tellarini , Ashley J. Ross , Gianmassimo Tasinato , David Wands

Upcoming galaxy redshift surveys promise to significantly improve current limits on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) through measurements of 2- and 3-point correlation functions in Fourier space. However, realizing the full potential of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Matteo Biagetti , Emiliano Sefusatti , Vincent Desjacques , Jorge Noreña

Planned efforts to probe the largest observable distance scales in future cosmological surveys are motivated by a desire to detect relic correlations left over from inflation, and the possibility of constraining novel gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-11 Caroline Guandalin , Julian Adamek , Philip Bull , Chris Clarkson , L. Raul Abramo , Louis Coates

The bispectrum provides a characteristic signature of gravitational instability that can be used to probe the Gaussianity of the initial conditions and the bias of the galaxy distribution. We study how this signature is affected by redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Roman Scoccimarro , H. M. P. Couchman , Joshua A. Frieman

The galaxy bispectrum is affected on equality scales and above by relativistic observational effects, at linear and nonlinear order. These lightcone effects include local contributions from Doppler and gravitational potential terms, as well…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Sheean Jolicoeur , Obinna Umeh , Roy Maartens , Chris Clarkson

We study the cosmological information content of the redshift-space galaxy bispectrum monopole at one-loop order in perturbation theory. We incorporate all effects necessary for comparison to data: fourth-order galaxy bias, infrared…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Giovanni Cabass , Marko Simonović , Matias Zaldarriaga , Takahiro Nishimichi

If the orientations of galaxies are correlated with large-scale structure, then anisotropic selection effects such as preferential selection of face-on disc galaxies can contaminate large scale structure observables. Here we consider the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Elisabeth Krause , Christopher Hirata